On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:38 PM, TreKing <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Peter Teoh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I am curious what API or method Android used to kill a specific thread in >> a process too.....but your link above did not say anything on that? >> Please enlighten me :-). > > > I'm not sure what you're asking. The OP didn't ask anything about killing > a specific thread. He question was about killing a Service without killing > the entire hosting process. > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:44 PM, Peter Teoh <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> a service is a thread in a process, > > > What? No it's not. Where'd you get that? > > > http://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/Service.html#WhatIsAService > Second bullet point: "A Service is *not* a thread" > well...you contradict yourself: same URL you quote: "Note that services, like other application objects, run in the main thread of their hosting process." So, ok, service is not a thread, but the "main thread" is running the service. And therefore, everything is still implemented as threads. See this: http://www.androidenea.com/2009/07/system-server-in-android.html And you can see that system_server process has many threads, each running different services for Android. To quote: "We see that the power manager is started first, followed by the activity manager and the other services. There are a lot more services started after these initial and if you are interested take look in the SystemServer.java file. Each service is running in a separate Dalvik thread in the SystemServer process." see detailed picture here: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_fcXaF6gx74U/Skt-LUxMZSI/AAAAAAAAAB0/WsPol_qxwL4/s1600/SystemServer_threads.png -- Regards, Peter Teoh -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
